“Trust in the Lord, and do good; dwell in the Land and feed on His faithfulness."
"Delight yourself also in the Lord, and He shall give you the desires of your heart.”
"Commit your way to the Lord, Trust also in Him, and He shall bring it to pass,
”He shall bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your justice as the noonday.”
”Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for Him; do not fret………….”
Psalm 37:3-7

When John and I made the decision that we were moving to Mexico in August, everything was working out beautifully!! Things were smooth, support was flooding in, and everyone felt that this was the right time for us to go. Then, we received a couple emails in regards to support…… A couple of our main supporters had to change their committed amount due to life circumstances. This was hard to swallow. Things just days earlier seemed to be flowing and now they seemed to be drying up. Was this the right time to go?
Later on that week, after nothing was working and I felt that my hands were tied, God spoke. We were taking the kids to the park and I decided to stay in the car and soak a bit. I noticed that I had my bible in the car- I asked God, “could You please give me something encouraging, something to hold on to in this season?” He gave me Psalms 37:3-8. This was just what I needed to hear for that moment. I began to dig in to the depth of what the Lord was giving me.

TRUST- in Hebrew means to be secure, feel safe, and be care less or care free. God was telling me, “Jessica, you need to know that I am going to bring to pass the desires of your heart. You need to be secure in who I am, feel safe with what I have told you, cast all your cares about this situation on me, and be care free. The last part of that verse, “dwell in the Land and feed on His faithfulness,” reminded me to feed on everything that He has done for me. Feed on the testimonies- that is what will sustain hope in this situation.

DELIGHT- means to be pampered, to make merry over, or make sport of. God was telling me to relax and let Him pamper me!! Let Him make merry over me!!

COMMIT - As John and I studied this word, we found that it means “to Roll, or to Roll onto.” I thought to myself, how do you get “to roll” from “Commit? There are a number of passages that used this when talking about rolling the stone off of the mouth of the well. A friend had just given me a word during this season that is so fitting with this. She said “Jess you really need to knock it off (meaning stop picking it back up and worrying about it) Your worry is getting in the way of what God is trying to bring to pass.” Essentially I was acting as the stone over the well that needed to be removed in order to access the flow beneath.

REST- There are two things that I am not really good at: 1) being still and relaxing 2) Being quiet. This word in the Hebrew means to be silent before the Lord. Don’t repeat what you have already told him. Stop the idle murmurings. This is exactly what I was doing!! Every time support would drop, I would bring it God and say, “WHAT NOW?” and every time it looked impossible- I would let Him know! As if He doesn’t know! LOL!

As I’ve been resting God has been providing. A friend of ours called and said they wanted to commit to us monthly $300!! I would have never expected!! Another friend of ours who pastors a church in Nevada called and said they would take us on as their missionaries that they support monthly!! God is good!! We still have a little more to go that we need to raise for monthly support, but God is on the move and working on our behalf- We will leave at the end of July to live in Mexico as ambassadors of the King’s Domain!